by Immy Robinson and Gemma Drake | 1 Mar 2022 | Convenings, Relational Councils
On 14th February, in partnership with LBBD, we hosted our second relational councils convening. In this session, we asked: How could we see relationships as a solution to statutory duties, not as incompatible with them? Our next convening, taking place on 25th April,...
by David Robinson and Gemma Drake | 9 Jan 2023 | Convenings, Relational Councils
In the Relational Councils Network we are working to support one another in making the challenging transition from relationships as the extra mile, to relationships as the first mile. If this mission is to be credible and useful in 2023 it must have relevance to the...
by Immy Robinson | 31 May 2019 | Our thinking
In brief In this Joining the Dots blog, Immy Robinson – Research and Innovation Lead at Shift and co-lead of The Relationships Project – explores some of the knotty questions around measuring and evaluating relationships. The need for measurement The...
by Rufus Olins | 17 May 2019 | Guest Blogs
In brief In this Joining the Dots blog, Rufus Olins reflects on the importance of data in making the case for a more relationship-centred approach in business settings. Rufus Olins Executive Director at Institute of Masters of Wine Rufus was Chief...
by Tayo Medupin | 4 Sep 2020 | Covid and Relationships, Guest Blogs
In brief In this Observatory Sighting, Shift’s Innovation Director Tayo Medupin explores the potential of a more people-powered future, and highlights the underinvestment in individuals stepping up and stepping in to help others in their community....
by Nick Stanhope | 24 Jul 2019 | Guest Blogs
In brief In this Joining the Dots blog, Shift’s CEO (and dad to a 3 year old) Nick Stanhope explores ways in which digital technologies can help – rather than hinder – us putting relationships at the heart of what we do, bringing warmth to unnecessarily...
by Ray Shostak | 14 Oct 2019 | Economy & Politics, Guest Blogs
In brief In this piece for Joining the Dots blog Ray Shostak considers the “enabling conditions” for developing relational practice and suggests a framework for supporting them. Ray Shostak Government advisor Ray has been a teacher, a local authority worker, a...
by David Robinson | 31 Mar 2020 | Convenings, Covid and Relationships, Our thinking
In brief In this blog we lay out our plans for The Relationships Observatory and invite you to share relationship-centred responses to COVID-19 and its challenges. Our plan In my last two blogs I talked about how we can learn from the crisis and embed effective and...
by David Robinson | 14 May 2020 | Covid and Relationships
In our sixth Observatory Sighting, we explore the ways in which we’ve both come together and moved apart, and ask how we can do more of the former and less of the latter. We have been looking at where communities are coming together across faiths,...
by Immy Robinson | 30 Apr 2020 | Convenings, Covid and Relationships
In our fourth Observatory Sighting, we discuss the shift from competition to collaboration born from the necessity of a rapid, joined up response to the disruption wraught by Covid-19. Relationships between organisations are changing as much as relationships between...
